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Global Magic
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Author : Alf Hornborg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Global Magic written by Alf Hornborg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.
Global Ritualism
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Author : Denny Sargent
language : en
Publisher: Denny Sargent
Release Date : 1993
Global Ritualism written by Denny Sargent and has been published by Denny Sargent this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The concept of ritual and spirituality is common to all peoples. Global Ritualism analyzes the common themes and archetypal symbols of higher ritual so you can define how these archetypes play out in your own life. As you build a "global vocabulary" of such spiritual and magical symbols, you will be able to construct your own vibrant, living rituals.
The Anthropocene And The Global Environmental Crisis
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-15
The Anthropocene And The Global Environmental Crisis written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Business & Economics categories.
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the ‘Age of Humans’. Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book explores the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history to the foundational ideas of modern social science. If in the Anthropocene humans have become a force of nature, changing the functioning of the Earth system as volcanism and glacial cycles do, then it means the end of the idea of nature as no more than the inert backdrop to the drama of human affairs. It means the end of the ‘social-only’ understanding of human history and agency. These pillars of modernity are now destabilised. The scale and pace of the shifts occurring on Earth are beyond human experience and expose the anachronisms of ‘Holocene thinking’. The book explores what kinds of narratives are emerging around the scientific idea of the new geological epoch, and what it means for the ‘politics of unsustainability’.
The Magic Of Technology
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Author : Alf Hornborg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-10-20
The Magic Of Technology written by Alf Hornborg and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Social Science categories.
This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon. It emphasises that technology is not the politically neutral revelation of natural principles that we tend to think, but largely a means of accumulating, through physically asymmetric exchange, the material means of harnessing natural forces to reinforce social relations of power. Alf Hornborg reflects on how our cultural illusions about technology appeared in history and how they continue to stand in the way of visions for an equal and sustainable world. He argues for a critical reconceptualisation of modern technology as an institution for redistributing human time, resources, and risks in world society. The book highlights a need to think of world trade in other terms than money and raises fundamental questions about the role of human-artifact relations in organising human societies. It will be of interest to a range of scholars working in anthropology, sociology, economics, development studies, and the philosophy of technology.
Modern Enchantments
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Author : Simon During
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Modern Enchantments written by Simon During and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Performing Arts categories.
“A history of “secular,” or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture” (Nicholas Daly). Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During’s superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society’s image of itself. Praise for ModernEnchantment “During documents the extent to which magic and magical thinking have pervaded, and continue to pervade, secular life . . . the author examines 19th- and 20th-century theatrical magic and “commercial conjuring” with great sensitivity to the social and cultural context in the Western world. Equally fascinating is the analysis of magic and early film.” —R. Sugarman, Choice “A richly informed, warmly argued addition to the growing number of books in which writers worry at the pervasive blurring of distinctions between act and appearance, organic consciousness and artificial intelligence, imagination and empirical experience, illusion and thought, reality TV and real life, dreams and money.” —Marina Warner, Financial Times “During moves confidently across three centuries of magic (and covers aspects of a few more besides). The sheer wealth of historical detail he provides is impressive, but no less impressive is the subtlety of his argumentation, and the suggestiveness of his claims . . . This extremely significant piece of work will appeal to literary critics, historians, and not least, devotees of magic.” —Nicholas Daly, author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880–1914
Global Children Global Media
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Author : D. Buckingham
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-11-12
Global Children Global Media written by D. Buckingham and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-12 with Social Science categories.
Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood, with empirical research in which children's voices are featured prominently and directly.
12th Global Conference Perspectives On Evil With Magic The Supernatural Prague Czech Republic
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Author : Global Conference Perspectives on evil with magic and the supernatural
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
12th Global Conference Perspectives On Evil With Magic The Supernatural Prague Czech Republic written by Global Conference Perspectives on evil with magic and the supernatural and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Performing Magic On The Western Stage
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Author : L. Hass
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-12-08
Performing Magic On The Western Stage written by L. Hass and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.
Magic For Beginners Iv
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Author : Harry Eilenstein
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Magic For Beginners Iv written by Harry Eilenstein and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with Religion categories.
This Volume contains the books: - Meditation for Beginners - Hypnosis for Beginners - Ritual Magic for Beginners - Number Symbolism for Beginners - Schamanism for Beginners - Da'ath Magic for Beginners - Self Knowledge for Beginners - The Synthesis of Physics and Magic
Da Ath Magic For Beginners
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Author : Harry Eilenstein
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-06-22
Da Ath Magic For Beginners written by Harry Eilenstein and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-22 with Religion categories.
Usually magic begins with simple telepathy experiments, the production of talismans, telekinesis experiments and the like. However, these beginnings, which mainly show that magic is possible, can be increased significantly - first by practice, then by recognizing one's own soul, and finally by one-pointedness, invocations, presence, and the like. Thus simple, ordinary magic can eventually be increased to extraordinary magic - to "miracles" such as firewalks, spontaneous healings, and materializations. For this, no craftsmanship, no special rituals or spells, no secret traditions and the like are necessary, but a certain consciousness, which in the Kabbalistic tradition is called "Da'ath". This is the state of letting go and of boundlessness. The way to it can be sudden - which can be felt as a jumping into a bottomless abyss. Or it can be approached gradually - in which case it can be one of the most pleasant states of all ... a smile like Buddha, a boundaryless consciousness like the gods have, a fully conscious collective subconsciousness ... just Da'ath ...